PSYC-4355 Lecture Notes - Endangerment, Common Cold

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Stress is distinct form the stressor, the stressor is the thing that makes you stressed. The stressor doesn"t not have to be real, it just has to be perceived to be real, anything perceived to be. Distress refers to the emotional of psychological component of the stress response, its one part but its real is real in its component not the whole of the stress response. This response system has a purpose, the goal of the stress response is to prepare the organism for (immediate) action, to make the organism aware, and alert and responsive to its environment. Adrenaline, heart rate increases, immune system suppresses all to engage the stressor that they are going to through stress, adaptive process. In the course of evolutionary history, most of the stressors are of the acute stressors, short lived, predators of members of other bands, engage or withdraw= fight or flight response .

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